Word: byrneses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Conant was announced as a member of a five-man committee to study controls and safeguards needed to protect United States know-how in the use of atomic energy by Secretary of State Byrnes before he left for London last night.
Byrnes stuck to the terms of the Truman-Attlee-King statement on atomic energy (TIME, Nov. 26). Following its terms closely, the Foreign Ministers proposed an atomic energy commission under the UNO Security Council, to make suggestions in four stages: 1) free exchange of basic scientific information; 2) controls to...
Even before Byrnes left for Moscow, the Senate had second thoughts about this sequence. Key Senators warned him that such stages would release far too much information before there were any real safeguards. They wanted the whole problem wrapped up in one package, so that complete, adequate and dependable inspection...
Proof of the Pudding. By the time Jimmy Byrnes's plane reached Washington, the world had had time to read the communiqué, think it over. At the airport he wearily told reporters he had just one wish: "To get out of my drawers and have a haircut." Eagerly...
Next night, Byrnes went on the air with a defense of the agreements. He argued that the U.S. would use its veto power against peace terms that ignored small-nation interests. As for the Balkan nations, he said, "It is for us to say whether the terms have been complied...